Research Article
Aim & Scope
The JGEDC is an international refereed scientific journal which publishes review and research article related scopes are as below;
Giftedness
Gifted education
Psychology of gifted
Gifted education policies
Advanced learning & teaching
Teaching techniques and activities for gifted
Creativity studies
Thinking skills
Author Guidelines
Intructions for Authors
Thank you for choosing JGEDC to submit your article. The instructions we will give you will relieve you of your article being ready for the peer review process, turning it into production and reaching the publication stage smoothly. Please take some time to read and follow the steps. We declare that we will support you at every stage, our contact information (e-mail and whatsapp) in this regard is on our website. Do not hesitate to contact us.
This journal uses the Dergipark Journal System. This system is an academic journal software developed by The Scientific And Technological Research Council of Turkey and is still being developed. Please read the guide for Dergipark Journal System authors before making a submission. The complete instructions for preparing your article and submitting it to JGEDC are given below.
About the JGEDC
Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research with high quality and potential for impact. Please read JGEDC's Aims & Scope and Peer Review Policy statements. Please note that this journal only publishes articles in English.
The Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity only accepts articles such as: original articles.
Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity has chosen the Open Access model to reach the real audience, increase the visibility, attribution and readability of your articles, and make scientific knowledge a common commodity for all humanity, rather than just a high-income commodity for developed countries or an elite. You can read statements about this Open Access Policy.
Peer Review and Ethics
JGEDC and its affiliated publishing house, Genç Bilge Publishing, declare their commitment to peer review with high ethical standards. Your article will go through Editorial Prereview after Similarity Report review (must be below 12%), pre-review of ethical committee permissions. This is the stage where the decision is made about the suitability and originality of your article for JGECD's Aims & Scope. This is how your article is ready for peer review by independent and field experts. In line with JGEDC's Peer Review Policy statements, peer review is carried out quickly and efficiently, with minimum deficiencies, maximum ethical sensitivity.
Please note that before submitting your article to the Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity; to prepare your Similarity Reports (you can use Turnitin, Ithenticate software), Ethics Committee Permissions, Cover Letter, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions statements in which you claim the originality of your article.
Getting Your Article Ready
Writing Rules
Manuscripts should be written in APA style.
Manuscripts should be submitted in MS Word.
It should be use a normal 11-point EB Garamond for text.
All portions of the manuscript must be typed 1,15
It should not be indent the first line of paragraphs, and other paragraphs are indented 0.50 cm.
Please give short quotations in italics within the quotation marks " " and the page number cited at the end in parentheses.
Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
Article Sections and Order
Abstract (350-450 words)
Introduction (included in literature review, conceptual framework, importance)
Problem of Study (Main and sub-problems)
Method (included in Research Model, Participants-Sampling, Data Collection Tools, Data Analysis, Procedure)
Results (It should be presented depending on the research problem)
Discussion (Up-to-date citations from quality journals and original articles in important indexes should be given)
Conclusion (Must be at least one page, present the entire article in summary)
Recommendations ( For Researchers and For Applicants)
Limitations of Study
Acknowledgements (Thanks, support funds, permissions, conflict interests, authors' contributions should be written in this section)
Biodata of Authors (Photo, name-surname, graduated schools, important studies, specialties, academic social media links; Like Researchgate, AcademicEdu)
References (It should be meticulously written in accordance with APA style, checked, not self-citation)
Appendix
In order for your article to be ready, we offer you a word version of a published article as a template. Please edit the page number, header and footer settings without changing them. We present you Templated Article for JGEDC.
Page Limit
A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 35 pages, inclusive of: Appendix
References
The References section is one of the most important parts of the article. Please prepare it in accordance with the APA style, with 10 points and single spacing.
Article Support Center (Young Wise) Services
You can benefit from the services of the Article Support Center to develop your manuscript and make it ready for submission. You can visit the website for services such as editing, translation and proofreading.
Checklist for Submit an Article
Author Information Details and Records to Dergipark Journal System: Please check that all authors have registered with the Dergipark Journal System before submitting an article. Please note that the ORCID of each author will be requested by the Dergipark Journal System during registration. Therefore, do not forget to register the ORCID beforehand. Authors are registered to the system only after they approve the verification emails sent by the system. We recommend that authors fill out their profiles in the Dergipark Journal System completely.
Cover Letter: Do not forget to prepare the Cover Letter stating the ethical elements, originality and other aspects of your work.
Copyright Transfer Agreement Form: This form is requested to be uploaded while submitting the articles of the authors. Download the form by clicking this link, make sure that all authors have signatures.
Similarity (Plagiarism) Report: You can use software such as Turnitin, Ithenticate for this report. Note that the similarity rate must be less than 12%.
Keywords: Identify up to five key words. Make sure that keywords are effective and discoverable.
Ethics Committee Permission: If your research is a research that requires ethics committee approval, this permission must be obtained and uploaded during the article submit process.
Figure, Photos: Please upload the high resolution files of the figures and photos in the Manuscript separately during the submission.
Data Sharing: To allow other researchers to use the data you use in your research, or for transparency, use the infrastructure of internationally supporting organizations and indicate this in the manuscript.
Submitting Your Article
Submission of your article is done through Dergipark Journal System. This system is a software where all records are kept, article progress reports can be created, and the corresponding author can submit it on his own. The article submission steps are quite easy. However, due to the software, you may not be able to click the confirmation button in the pop-up that appears at the last stage, you may need to adjust your computer's settings or use another computer for this.
You can always get help during the submission process by using the contact information on our website. Please make sure that all authors are registered in the system beforehand and complete the submit process.
Publication Charges
There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.
Queries
If you have any queries, please contact us here.
Updated 14th September 2022
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
* Makes and implements editorial prevention against variants of Plagiarism containing all scientific definitions.
* Requests documents for Ethical Committe Permissions from authors during the article submission process
* Strictly examines the unethical behaviors of authors such as self-citation during the article pre-review and article review process.
* Strictly scrutinize ethical concerns such as "ghost author".
* It examines the data in cases that may cause publication concerns, as ensuring the transparency of the authors
* It asks academics with editorial duties to undertake not to communicate with authors except during article review processes.
* Editorial boards knows that the quality of JGEDC is directly related to its commitment to ethical principles.
* The editorial team is aware that their role in JGEDC is not a factor to increase their popularity, each member gives their commitment.
* Collaborates with authors' institutions on ethical issues
* The increase in indexing and the popularity of the journal never changes its strict adherence to the application of ethical principles.
* The authors, editors, referees and members of the editorial board are informed about compliance with ethical principles and commitments are requested.
* The authors, referees, editors and editorial board members do not know about ethical issues as an excuse, and they are dismissed from JGEDC.
* All information brought to the literature, practices, models and experiences by COPE must be known and applied by the stakeholders.
* Regarding the hesitation experienced in practices related to ethical problems; Under the chairmanship of the chief editor, the JGEDC Ethics Unit (JEU), which consists of 4 members of the editorial board and 5 people in total, undertakes the task of consulting. In order to increase the accuracy of its decisions, the JEU should seek advice from institutions that work with international ethical issues.
* The concept of double-bilinded peerreview is made a fact by choosing independent and expert reviewers with all its details, it is never left in discourse, it is applied. For this case, the review process reports recorded in the Dergipark Journal System are always available as proof/evidence.
Now let's explain some of the basics for authors, reviewers and editors.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism the unethical act of copying someone else’s prior ideas, processes, results or words without explicit acknowledgement of the original author and source. Self-plagiarism occurs when an author utilizes large part of his/her own previously published work without using appropriate references. This can range from getting the same manuscript published in multiple journals to modifying a previously published manuscript with some new data.
Types of plagiarism; Full Plagiarism: Previously published content without any changes to the text, idea and grammar is considered as full plagiarism. It involves presenting exact text from a source as one’s own. Partial Plagiarism: If content is a mixture from multiple different sources, where the author has extensively rephrased text, then it is known as partial plagiarism. Self-Plagiarism: When an author reuses complete or portions of their pre-published research, then it is known as self-plagiarism. Complete self-plagiarism is a case when an author republishes their own previously published work in a new journal.
Measures, Obligations and Responsibilities of JGEDC for Plagiarism
The Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity (JGEDC) is strictly against any unethical act of copying or plagiarism in any form. Plagiarism is said to have occurred when large portions of a manuscript have been copied from existing previously published resources. All manuscripts submitted for publication to JGEDC are cross-checked for plagiarism using Turnitin/ iThenticate software.
Procedure
JGEDC meticulously requests and checks plagiarism reports from authors for their article submissions (Similarity over 12% is unacceptable). Papers found to be plagiarized during initial stages of review are out-rightly rejected and not considered for publication in the journal. In case a manuscript is found to be plagiarized after publication, the Editor-in-Chief will conduct preliminary investigation, may be with the help of a suitable committee constituted for the purpose. If the manuscript is found to be plagiarized beyond the acceptable limits, the journal will contact the author’s Affiliation and Funding Agency, if any. A determination of misconduct will lead JGEDC to run a statement bidirectionally linked online to and from the original paper, to note the plagiarism and provide a reference to the plagiarized material. The paper containing the plagiarism will also be marked on each pages. This situation is conveyed to the relevant unit (JEU) in a report.
Figure 1. Plagiarism Intervention Flow Chart
Plagiarism Concern Status: JGEDC respects intellectual property and aims at protecting and promoting original work of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarized material are against the standards of quality, research and innovation. Hence, all authors submitting articles to JGEDC are expected to abide ethical standards and abstain from plagiarism, in any form.
Author(s) Request for Defense: In case, an author is found to be suspected of plagiarism in a submitted or published manuscript then, JGEDC shall contact the author (s) to submit his / her (their) explanation within two weeks, which may be forwarded to the JEU constituted for the purpose, for further course of action. If JGEDC does not receive any response from the author within the stipulated time period, then the director of authors’ affiliations to which the author is affiliated shall be contacted to take strict action against the concerned author.
Ethics Unit Report Preparation: JEU prepares a report containing the opinions and evidences of the plagiarism case by taking the defenses of the authors. He gives this report to the chief editor.
Article Related Sanction: JGEDC shall take serious action against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism and shall completely remove them from JGEDC journal website (https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jgedc) and other third party websites where the paper is listed and indexed. The moment, any article published in JGEDC database is reported to be plagiarized, JGEDC will constitute a JEU to investigate the same. Upon having established that the manuscript is plagiarized from some previously published work, JGEDC shall support the original author and manuscript irrespective of the publisher and may take any or all of the following immediate actions or follow the additional course of actions as recommended by the committee:
JGEDC shall remove the PDF copy of the published manuscript from the website (https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jgedc) and disable all links to full text article. The term Plagiarized Manuscript shall be appended to the published manuscript title. JGEDC shall disable the author account with the journal and reject all future submissions from the author for a period of 3 years or even ban the authors permanently. JGEDC may also display the list of such authors along with their full contact details on the JGEDC website. (https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jgedc)
Sanction on Authors: JGEDC editorial office shall immediately contact the Head of the Affiliations to which the author(s) is (are) affiliated to take strict action against the concerned author(s).
Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of All Stakeholders Related to Editorial Processes
In the creation of this section, the knowledge, experience and experience of Scopus-Elsevier and Web of Science-Clarivate, which are the most important indexes of the world, in the field of academic publishing were used. We also inform our stakeholders such as authors, referees and editors that we are committed to all ethical principles they have stated and agreed upon.
* JGEDC is non-profit, open access academic journal, and Genç Bilge Publishing is defined as a “Publisher”
* The publisher must arrange all information details, publication policies and ethical statements on JGEDC's website in accordance with COPE's Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.
* The publisher agrees to publish all accepted articles under open-access and CC BY-NC-ND license.
* Publisher never interferes with editorial processes and decisions.
* The publisher guarantees to assist the relevant institutions in ethical investigations.
* The publisher guarantees to comply with the publication policies of the JGEDC.
Duties of Authors
* The author must be honest and transparent in all the information he gives, such as the originality of his research, author contributions, and funds received.
* The author should not communicate with the members of the editorial board in any way that may affect the refereeing processes of his article.
* The author should first convey his problems related to the editorial processes to the editor-in-chief. It should not engage in an unethical and legally criminal behavior in the face of JGEDC's unfair, groundless, and unsubstantiated accusations, such as defaming it in different environments.
* The author should not submit his/her article without being aware of all JGEDC's policies and author's guideline. JGEDC's advisory and author support units are in charge of this. It does not engage in careless, unconscious and erroneous submit and review processes only for the rapid operation of the publication processes of the article.
* The author must be willing to apply all the details in the authors guideline. He should not enter into a bargain with the editor, as I will do some matters later.
* Authors give the right to access the research data and to request it when necessary, to the editorial board as stated in the guidelines. In this regard, it complies with the principles of transparency and accountability.
* Plagiarim (similarity) Report presented by author(s) without manipulation. It never uses software that changes words without changing the meaning of quotes from other sources. Presents an original research that he has constructed in his own sentences.
* It uses software such as Turnitin, Ithenticate to receive Plagiarism reports.
* Author(s) should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication.
* The author acts with fairness and ethical sensitivity in the matter that contributors and non-contributors should be written as article authors or thanked in the Acknowledgment section.
* Knows in which aspects the concept of authorship is valid. Definitely identifies the author's contributions in the Acknowledgment section.
* The author acts within the framework of ethical principles with the relevant institutions in terms of specifying the permissions received by the research process in the article or obtaining separate permission to be specified.
* The Ethical Committee Permission receives the for all research and adds it to the Dergipark Journal System during the article submission process. In the Acknowledgment section, it specifies the date of the decision and the number of decisions.
* All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
* Authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
* If the author discovers something fundamental, serious and inaccurate in his article after the article is published, he notifies the editor. This puts the author under an important responsibility. Options to retract or publishing of correct paper are implemented with editorial cooperation. It can never exhibit a behavior such as avoiding cooperation in this process.
* Editors are responsible for examining all ethical aspects of a submitted article. He cannot assign this responsibility to someone else, forget or ignore it.
* It also receives and controls the plagiarism (similarity) report that the authors upload while submitting the article, and does not delegate this task to an assistant or anyone else.
* The selection of editorial board members invited to JGEDC does not take into account bias and self-interest.
* It notifies the author of its decision for the decision-making time limits for an article. Cannot engage in unethical behavior such as careless, indifferent and unnecessary waiting towards the author.
* Editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
* The editor should not share the knowledge of the review processes of an article with anyone. Information and documents should have a strict attitude in terms of confidentiality.
* The editor cannot use the idea or material in a submitted article for his own work.
* If there is a conflict of interest with the author in a submitted article, the editor should directly request that this article be assigned to another editor.
* The editor meticulously plays a critical role in conducting an investigation between the publisher and the author's institutions regarding any ethical problem.
Duties of Reviewers
* The reviewer should be aware that it is a very influential factor in the development of the article and the editor's decision.
* When the reviewer feels inadequate to evaluate an article, he should ask for another reviewer to be assigned to the article.
* Reviewer should not discuss the information and ideas in an article they are reviewing with others.
* The reviewer should not use derogatory, commanding or humiliating expressions in his comments about the article. Should not criticize the author inappropriately. While expressing their views, they should support them with arguments.
* JGEDC's review form is very detailed. This form has been prepared to include all the details of the article. The reviewer should not be in the act of filling in the fields that need to be filled in this form in a short and vague manner such as "it is appropriate, good".
* The reviewer should check whether the author has deliberately or mistakenly cited to any source in the literature, and the editor should warn about this issue.
* The reviewer should check whether the author does self-citiation, dominate the author's own work or a research group's work in the academic community, cite biasedly, and popularize it, and report this situation to the editor with its arguments.
* The reviewer should notify the editor of the eligibility for his appointment and when he can review the article. It should not act recklessly to interfere with the journal's workflow and to waste the valuable time of the author.
Updated 15th September 2022
Price Policy
Article Publication or Processing Charge
JGEDC does not charge article publishing fees.
Indexes
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Journal Boards
Editor-in-Chief
Todd Kettler, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development and the Baylor TIP Program and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the School of Education at Baylor University. He teaches courses in gifted education, and creativity. Dr. Kettler previously worked as an English teacher, a gifted education specialist, and a director of advanced academics. He has published research in journals such as Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, Journal of Advanced Academics, and Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Journal of Creative Behavior. His book on gifted and talented learning designs, Modern Curriculum for Gifted and Advanced Academic Students, won the 2016 Legacy Award for the best scholarly book in gifted education. His most recent book on integrated creative pedagogy, Creativity in the Classroom: Learning and Innovation for 21st Century Schools was published in 2018. Dr. Kettler coordinates the gifted and talented education programs for the School of Education at Baylor University which includes preparation of pre-service teachers, as well as advanced graduate degrees focusing on gifted education. He currently serves as the Chair of the Commissioner’s Advisory Council for Gifted Education in Texas, and he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity. Dr. Kettler actively participates as a member of the National Association for Gifted Children and the American Educational Research Association.
Assoc. Editors
Keri M. Guilbault, Ed.D., is an associate professor in the doctor of education (Ed.D.) program and director of the graduate program in gifted education at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). She is a Fulbright Specialist and recipient of the 2020 American MENSA National Chair's Service Award and the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children Early Leader Award. She has worked as a district supervisor of gifted and talented programs, as an instructional coach, and as a teacher of the gifted. Her leadership experience includes three terms on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and a past trustee on the Board of Trustees of the Mensa Education and Research Foundation. Dr. Guilbault was appointed as the Director of Science and Education of American Mensa in 2019 and currently serves as chair of the Mensa International Gifted Youth Committee. She received her master’s degree in Gifted Education from the University of South Florida and obtained her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership with a specialization in gifted education program administration from the University of Central Florida. Her research interests include academic acceleration, parenting the highly to profoundly gifted, and educational leadership of advanced learning programs.
Prof.Dr. Michael F. Shaughnessy is currently Professor of Educational Studies at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico USA. He has served as Editor in Chief of Gifted Education International and can be reached electronically at Michael.Shaughnessy@enmu.edu. His orcid i.d. is 0000 0002 1877 1319. His current research interests include talent development and intellectual assessment as well as the role of personality in giftedness, talent and creativity.
Albert Ziegler, PhD, is Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Research on Excellence at the University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany. He is the Founding Director of the Statewide Counseling and Research Center for the Gifted. He has published approximately 400 books, chapters and articles in the fields of talent development and educational psychology. He developed the Actiotope Model of Giftedness, which promotes a systemic conception of giftedness. In his research, his main interests are learning resources and effective learning environments, self-regulated learning, mentoring, and gifted identification. Presently, he serves as the Vice President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), and as Chairman of the European Talent Support Network (ETSN). In 2017, he was appointed Director of the World Giftedness Center in Dubai.
Advisory Board Members
Hanna David received her PhD, "magna cum laude", from Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München, and was a college lecturer in Psychology and literature. Dr. David's undergraduate studies started at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she majored in physics, mathematics, and Hebrew Literature. David received her Master's degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York at age 22. Since her retirement from Tel Aviv University, she has been working as a counselor for gifted students and their families. Dr. David is a well-known lecturer at national and international conferences in the fields of psychology, education, giftedness, and an expert evaluator of research proposals for the European Commission. She has published widely in English, Hebrew, French, and German, edited dozens of books, and authored 19, in addition to 300+ papers. Dr. David is a licensed Pilates instructor and practices yoga.
Editorial Board Members [
Dr Michelle Ronksley-Pavia is a Senior Lecturer in Special Education and Inclusive Education and the Program Director for the Graduate Certificate in Special Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies, and a researcher with the Griffith Institute for Educational Research (GIER). Dr Ronksley-Pavia is an internationally recognised award-winning researcher working in the areas of gifted education, twice-exceptionality (gifted students with disability), GenAI and education, inclusive education, special education, neurodiversity, and initial teacher education. Her work centres on applications of AI in education contexts, disability and inclusive educational practices and gifted and talented educational practices and provisions. She has been awarded Teaching Excellence Awards for her work in undergraduate and postgraduate primary and secondary preservice teacher education programs. Dr Ronksley-Pavia is also disabled and a disability advocate.
Dr Ronksley-Pavia has secured Queensland Department of Education Horizon grant funding to explore the use of GenAI by teachers in supporting the diverse learning needs of neurodiverse students. In her most recent grant success, as recipient of the prestigious American Psychological Foundation Esther Katz Rosen Fund Grant Dr Ronksley-Pavia became the first Australian and first Griffith University Researcher to receive this exceptional grant, her project aims to explore the roles GenAI may play in gifted education programming for gifted adolescents.
Dr Ronksley-Pavia has received numerous prestigious awards for her work, inlcuding the 2020-2024 Nurturing Talents Recognition Award from the Asia-Pacific Federation on Giftedness (APFG). She has also been awarded the ‘Best Research Paper’ international award from the K-12 Education Administration, Ministry of Education (Republic of China) in recognition of her research. She is an Australian Delegate to the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC), and a representative on the WCGTC’s Teacher-Education-Committee, co-authoring the Council’s Position Statement on Teacher Education and the WCGTC’s inaugural Global Principles for Professional Learning in Gifted Education. She is also the National Correspondent for Australia on the European Council for High Ability (ECHA). Dr Ronksley-Pavia's expertise as a leader in the field of twice-exceptional research has been recognised by the Bridges 2e Center for Research and Professional Development in the USA. Dr Ronksley-Pavia is an editorial board member of the Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity. As an international leading expert on disability, giftedness and twice-exceptionality, Dr Ronksley-Pavia has published widely on a range of important topics including differentiation and giftedness, stigma and disability, bullying and disability, intersectionality of trauma and disability, prevalence of twice-exceptionality, special education, and contemporary issues in initial teacher education.
Marisa Soto-Harrison, Ed.D. graduated with an Education Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Gifted and Talented Education from the Department of Teaching and Learning Sciences, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver. She also holds a M. Ed from the University of Nevada, Reno in Special Education. Currently, Dr. Soto-Harrison serves as a teacher, consultant, and advocate, providing educational assessments and support to families in California, Florida and Nevada. Dr. Soto-Harrison is the co-founder of Sierra Gifted Educational Services in Northern California. Her research interest include highly and profoundly gifted children and adults and twice-exceptional learners.
I have written nine scientific books, mostly about music and music education. I have published more than 200 articles including arts education in visual arts, music, craft etc. I have supervised more than 650 pro gradu thesis (Master´s thesis) and more than 10 doctoral thesises.
Associate Professor PhD, Mojca Kukanja Gabrijelčič, Director of Center of Giftedness and Creativity, University of Primorska, Faculty of Education. In the field of research, she is mainly concerned with the development of didactics; studies the design of curricula and teaching materials for the social sciences and alternative didactic strategies for teaching in higher education. In addition to didactics, her longterm research is directed towards gifted and talented students, finding (identifying) gifted students in primary school, in history classes and discovering gifted children in preschool, developing didactic strategies for working with the gifted and talent children. Her important contribution in the field of gifted education is mainly in the measurement tool, as she was the first in Slovenia to create an assessment scale for discovering gifted students in history and also for gifted preschoolers. ORCID: 0000-0003-0682-613X
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mojca-Kukanja-Gabrijelcic
Alberta Novello has a PhD in Linguistics from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and is an associate professor of Educational Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at the University of Padova in Padua, Italy. She is a member on various scientific boards that specifically examine language education in Italy. She is co-director of CESLE (Centro Studi sulla Linguistica Educativa) and part of the editorial boards of various language journals and a book series. Her main research interests include giftedness, language assessment, and early bilingualism.
Angela Novak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and AIG Coordinator at East Carolina University, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in education, focusing on assessment practices and gifted education. Dr. Novak has served both NAGC and CEC-TAG in a variety of network, committee and board roles, and is on the Advisory Council of Pure Play Every Day. She recently co-edited, with Dr. Christine Weber, a three-book series of NAGC service publications related to professional learning and has authored book chapters, peer-reviewed articles in gifted education, administration, and professional learning, as well as practitioner-focused and parent-centered articles in gifted education. She has worked in public education in the gifted field as a classroom teacher, resource teacher, and central office support, as well as in the private not-for-profit sector of gifted education. Dr. Novak researches professional learning, creativity, gifted collegians, and play, all within the context of gifted education and equity. She is the co-creator, with Dr. Katie D. Lewis, of the Four-Zone Professional Learning Model and the Seven Guiding Principles for Developing Equity-Driven Professional Learning for Educators of Gifted Children. She is an equity and anti-racism advocate, and is a member of the Diversity Scholars Network, from the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and is currently the Co-Chair of the Diversity and Equity Committee for NAGC. You can read her blog or more about her work at www.angelamnovak.com.
Connie Phelps, EdD, Professor Emerita, and Dr. John E. King Endowed Professor at Emporia State University, directed the Gifted Education graduate programs for 19 years. She taught K-12 gifted students in the Wichita Public Schools and currently teaches K-12 gifted students through the Flint Hills Special Education Cooperative in Emporia, Kansas. She served on the Future Problem Solving Programs International Board of Trustees and Board of Advisors and as the National Association for Gifted Studies Professional Learning Network Chair. Her World Council for Gifted and Talented elected positions include alternate USA delegate and committee member for Global Principles for Professional Learning in Gifted Education. She served on the editorial board for Teaching for High Potential and as guest editor for Parenting for High Potential. Other leadership includes accreditation review and lead reviewer for NAGC/CEC Specialized Professional Associations (SPA) for its duration (8 years), Javits-Frasier Scholar Mentor (4 years), Creativity Network Program Chair (4 years), and the Kansas Association for Gifted, Talented, and Creative Executive Board as Historian. She publishes research on giftedness, talent development, and creativity in national and international journals, served as co-editor of Emporia State Research Studies for eight years, and conducts international collaborative research on creative giftedness.
Managing/Executive Editor
Editorial Assistants
Mary Pei is a Ph.D. candidate in the Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines the identification, measurement, and development of talent and creativity in the United States and East Asia. She also studies Asian-American experiences in education.
JGEDC is one of approximately ten academic journals in the world that publish in the field of gifted education, and its editorial board includes some of the most prominent scholars in this field.